A humble collection of poetry everyone can recognize themselves in. The author shares her life's experiences of losing a first love, life separating you from a young adult love, how to go on with heartbreak, accept yourself for who you are, learn to be comfortable with yourself, and just take life as a fun experience you accept as a challenge and give your best. This is inspiring even though a little depressing. I saved a few poems to read to my daughters when it will be time to try to put words into feelings and help them go through tough times.

Thank you to the publisher and the author for this e-ARC in exchange of my honest opinion.

Wow, I was truly not expecting to be affected as much as I was while reading this collection of poetry. I felt like what I was going through was taken out of my soul and put onto paper so it could make more sense. I really resonated with the first half of the book and less so with the last half, however it was still a great complete read.

The collection transitions so well from love to heartbreak, then to self-discovery and self-love and acceptance. It was a very nice fluid story told through rhyme. It felt like I was hearing Taylor Swift read slam poetry (*snaps*).

Two of my favorite bit of the entire collection are below. I tear up even typing them.

Don't Be a Stranger:
You smile weakly and say to me, "don't be a stranger,"
and I nod my head knowing that's what I'll become.
Still, there will always be something between us-
a quiet recognition of what once was."

"Things do not have to last forever to have been meant to be."

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and the author for an opportunity to read and review this book before its publishing date. Opinions are my own.

thank you NetGalley for this arc.
this poetry book was nice,
it had good rhyming at times & it had good themes of love, loss, and growth. this book wasn’t bad, it was just average to me. Maybe if i had read it at a different point in my life i would’ve liked this book more? i just found it to be all over the place at times and i just couldn’t keep up with what the author was talking about with the constant topic switching. this book was unfortunately not for me, but if you enjoy simply written poetry with lots of mental health discussion, you might enjoy this.

This collection explores first love and how it ends. That it never leaves you no matter how you move one. Memories will always be there. Reminder to be kind to yourself in the end.
One thing I gotta say is that the running theme was the first love and how it ended how it hurts multiple times in different ways that made it seem repetitive but other than that I enjoyed the collection.
The writing was amazing and the common. Theme through out.
I breezed through this and enjoy what I read.

I love poetry like this - raw emotions and brutal honesty. A great addition to anyone's poetry shelves.

Thanks to Netgalley, St. Martin's, and the author for the eARC in exchange for my review.

I first heard about Sophie Diener after I received an email from NetGalley, where they offered the opportunity for me to read her poetry collection, "Someone Somewhere Maybe." While I don't read much poetry, I enjoyed reading her pieces, and found many of them relatable to experiences I've had in my life so far. I have a good feeling countless others will feel the same or similar once they read this!

Special thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Griffin for the opportunity to read this digital ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Five stars! Gosh, I love Sophie's writing - I found her ages ago on TikTok and have even gotten some of her work on Etsy and framed in my office just because I love it so much.

She writes with such ease and most of it hits so close to home. I really enjoyed how the poetry was compiled from the early stages to now and you can see the growth and natural maturing we experience as we go through life a little bit more.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read Sophie's poems. I will be pre-ordering Someone Somewhere Maybe, too, as I just need this on my bookshelf to grab every once in a while.

I think it’s hard to review poetry because of how intimate poetry is. Someone spilling their heart, emotions, experiences on paper to share with others in hope they might see them or connect.

Well Someone Somewhere Maybe really connected with me. I bawled my eyes out reading this book of poetry about falling in love, the heartbreak and growing. I felt so seen while reading this book and I just had to cry because it also made me realize some stuff about myself.

Thank you to NetGalley and Wednesday for providing me with an arc. These views are my own.

When I read this was for fans of Rupi Kaur & Amanda Lovelace, I knew I wanted to read it. Thank you to St. Martin's Press & NetGalley for the e-ARC. Dieners' poetry is definitely reminiscent to their likes. The themes of love, heartbreak, growth, grief, acceptance and anxiety are in my opinion, written with a youthful approach however with a full grasp of all those emotions and feelings can encompass. The longer poems are also reminiscent of musical lyrics.

Just like with other poet's, you're reading the exposure of Dieners heart, feelings and soul. Some are extremely revealing and gut wrenching, others are a memory you could have shared or relate to through personal experience.

It is a very quick and easy read and I would definitely recommend to anyone looking for a little mantra/affirmation style poetry read!

This collection of poems was very beautifully written and so relatable! The author states in the opening that they are based mostly in experiences from the age of 18 to 23, which is such an important and fast changing time in everyone’s life that even a couple of these poems would be relatable to most people - if not the book as a whole. This is definitely a poetry book that you can “sip” and pick up when you’re in the mood, or sit down and the read the book from cover to cover and return to without issue. I did find some of the poems did become a tad repetitive, with a focus on young love that falls apart - but of course that goes with the theme of the book.
My personal favourites were: A Poem for the People I Love, You Are Growing, and Reflections.
I definitely see myself gifting this book to friends down the road!

Thanks to NetGalley and St.Martin’s Press/Wednesday Books for the eARC in exchange for my thoughts. All thoughts are completely my own!

I suppose I should have known when I read “TikTok fan favorite” in the synopsis for this poetry collection that it might not be for me. Not that there’s anything wrong with TikTok, just that I might be too old to fully appreciate it. Not that there’s an age limit to such a thing, or that I’m that old (at least not on the outside). This one only gets 2 stars. It wasn’t bad, it just didn’t resonate with me. There weren’t lines that I just had to jot down to savor again later, which generally happens with poetry I love and know I will reread.

Diener writes about love and heartbreak as well as self worth, very relatable topics. Perhaps if I had read this a decade ago, in my twenties, I would have more stars to dole out. I do appreciate the openness and honesty throughout. Diener regularly mentions mental health and therapeutic ideas, which I agree should absolutely be talked about more. The issue for me was that usually these topics were just too plainly stated, I think? I can’t quite put my finger on how it didn’t work here but it can work for Rupi Kaur and Cleo Wade (poets to whom I have given 4-5 stars on multiple occasions and to whom this author was compared), but Diener’s attempt just didn’t work for me.

If these topics are of interest to you and you understand things I don’t about TikTok and/or poetry, you might like it. Either way, it’s a short poetry collection, so even if you don’t love it, there’s not much time lost if you give it a try!

Thank you to NetGalley for the e-arc. And thank you to Sophie Diener for being brave enough to bare your soul and then share it with dummies like me!

4.5 rounded up to 5!

This book is so raw, emotional and beautiful! Sophie Diener did an incredible job of writing a poetry collection that everything can feel something when they read it! If you're a fan of Amanda Lovelace this book is for you! It's so hard to emote how great this collection is, and you need to get a copy!!

Thank you St Martin's Press for the eARC!

This was truly so well written, as a woman in her 20’s this was very easy to connect too! From the raw beginning to the peaceful bright ending, it was a great reminder that through rough patches and failed loves; you need to be kind and find the love within yourself, I devoured this book! Some of my favourites were Panic Attacks, Run, The Waiting, Birthdays and Be Kind to Yourself. Will definitely be purchasing more from this author!

I don’t usually read poetry books, but I really enjoyed this one! The poems touch upon heart break and loss, and I think many people will find comfort in this book!

I thoroughly enjoyed this set of poems. While a lot of them were about bad relationships and trying to move on from them, a lot of it resonated with me and personal experiences I've had outside of relationships. I highly recommend reading these. Whether you're already healed, on the path to healing or just went through something. These poems made me feel like I wasn't alone

No offense but these felt like poems I would’ve written after a middle school break up. They seemed ridiculously cheesy or overly “emo” and there was wayyyy too much rhyming. For some reason I feel like rhyming doesn’t work for professional or publishing-level poetry. Thanks anyway for the ARC, but these did not work for me.

An interesting look at teen love and teen hardships made me realize how lucky I am to be on the other side of it. Although I could connect with some of the poems, the rhyming often became distracting to the overall message and theme of the poem, still rooting it in adolescence.

I enjoyed this collection of poetry. I felt a lot of the content was relatable as the author touched on young adulthood, love and growth. It was entertaining and lighthearted.

Poetry is so subjective that I don't often like to review it, but this sounded like something I would enjoy.

Unfortunately it was just not to my taste.

Look at me just randomly requesting a poetry collection on Negalley and only finding out after I've read it that the author is a "Tiktok fan favorite", whatever that means. I'm cool without meaning to be. (I'm just kidding. I've never been cool.)

Diener writes about first love, first heartbreak, and finding your identity as a young person out in the world. It's familiar territory, and Diener has some really good verses. I like her poems best when they're telling a story: of the first boy she loved, of his house, of falling in love again, of the little routines of love. I particularly enjoy "I Hope Today Is Kind to You" and "I Hope You're Happy". Still, it didn't stand out to me as a poetry collection. I liked but didn't love it. Recommended if you're looking for a new poet and some good verse. Just wasn't my favorite!